Every legendary ‘runner should have one, wouldn’t you say chooms? 😎🤘🏼
Spent the last eight months building and programming everything to turn my lonely server rack into a control center (albeit within certain building constraints).
I apologize if this has already been a thing in this sub, but I didn't see any posts about it. (Could've missed it, I'm dyslexic.)
Has anyone found the burning man graffiti in Heywood?
Like I said, I'm new to the mystery so please be easy on me.
I hope this isn't breaking any rules of the sub. I'd really like to stay lol. Thank you guys!
While inspecting the Demiurge, I noticed something interesting in its CrystalCoat menu.
Instead of the standard CrystalCoat interface, the Demiurge shows a glitched-looking UI with COSMETIC_TROLL on the left side and the slogan:
“FREEING SOFTWARE SINCE 2075”
After checking the 2.3 patch notes, I found that Cosmetic_Troll is an in-universe hacker who created a cracked version of Rayfield’s CrystalCoat technology for lower-end vehicles.
So this probably explains the basic meaning of the UI.
However, I’m still curious about why the Demiurge specifically uses this interface.
Is it simply because the Demiurge is a Thornton/Mackinaw and therefore uses the cracked CrystalCoat implementation? Or could it imply that Polyhistor, Tyromanta, or whoever modified the Demiurge installed Cosmetic_Troll’s software on it?
I’m not claiming this is another hidden FF:06:B5 clue—just wondering if anyone has compared this UI across other non-Rayfield vehicles or found any references to Cosmetic_Troll in the game files/lore.
Also, while inspecting the interior, I noticed that I couldn’t find conventional brake or accelerator pedals. Instead, there are two large levers near the steering wheel labeled “High Power.”
Has anyone else looked closely at the Demiurge cockpit or compared its CrystalCoat UI to other vehicles?
If I understand correctly, the engram used in the "secure your soul" project is some kind of AI created based on a person's brain scan or something like that.
In that case, would it be possible to capture AI data using a blackwall (if I remember correctly, the "Cynosure" project dealt with something like that), rebuild it into an engram (this would involve degrading the AI) and place it in a human body?
How would such a person behave and feel emotions?
Could such an Ai be taught humanity?
Below are spoilers for Prey (from 20217)
>!I was inspired to these reflections by the ending of the game Prey, in which Alex Yu tried to teach Typhon human emotions and empathy.!<
I've finally unlocked the Demiurge and decided not to drive it immediately. Instead, I inspected it in Photo Mode (free camera/no collision) to see how it was actually built.
A few things stood out:
As a mechanic, this immediately caught my attention. Those levers don't seem particularly ergonomic or practical for a vehicle like this, especially compared to conventional pedal controls.
So I'm curious:
I'm genuinely interested in understanding the design philosophy behind the Demiurge, not trying to prove a new FF:06:B5 theory.
Any ideas or observations are welcome.
I'm a beginner, so this might be a pointless observation, but I just found this statue in the Arasaka warehouse in Santo Domingo. Has there been any news about this Easter egg? Sorry if I'm late to the party—please go easy on me! ^^'
This building is directly across the bay from NightCorp.
The street that leads to the Pharmacy where she seemingly knows your problems—intersects with the Muran St.—where D is being attacked by unmanned vehicles?
There is also the endless battle between those four Tyger Claws and the NCPD at the intersection infront of the pharmacy.
This is all near Misty’s Esoterica and Megabuilding 10.
Been hanging out Before the Heist/Before Kiroshi trying to find details.
Earlier in the Teaser we see D running down a hallway, seemingly chasing red traces of 'something'.
Later, we then get a POV (not 100% clear whether it's D) of someone once again chasing a red trace through another hallway, it's clearly hacking and opening doors along the way.
Until the final door suddenly takes the shape of a huge maw that chomps down on the POV (this is where the lyrics start), with the camera then zooming out to reveal D standing on a street and staring off into the distance...
... when a driverless car almost hits him from behind, just before it's hit by an impact frame of red lightning, flipping it over and presumably saving his life at the last second (although it's already surrounded by red traces before that lol).
We then see several other cars having lost control and being surrounded by yet more red tracing.
The bright green color of the black wall resembles what is seen in Ciri's power.
I found codes and a string of text in the new *Edgerunners 2* teaser, and you can see the outlines of a face against a pink background.
I know this is a stretch, but I noticed something on this playthrough. During the ghost town quest when you go to the motel, you drink a Broseph (B5) and then go to room 206 (06). Trying to think of what the FF could be, and is 99.99% a coincidence. Possibly when you go to sleep/fast forward? You’re also immediately hit with a relic malfunction when you wake up.
If CDPR cares about every detail, V's eyes could light up blue during the conversation with Placide, when V is acting as his vessel through Agwe. If this turns out to be true, it would be a very important detail regarding how Mr. Blue Eyes truly operates.
I'm changing my graphics card and won't have the chance to check it myself for a while.
Updated.
The would-be legend merc, with some lore even unknown to us in her own memories, wakes up in a new world where she feels weak compared to all the new players, yet she might be the one to burn the city to the ground!
Looking at flippy123x's compilation, if it's not a mistake on CDPR's part then it's clear all endings are false except the one where V wakes up from a coma (The Tower ending), BALD, and everything has changed in NC. It's been two years already.
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/FF06B5/comments/1u9wwgv/v_dreaming_about_memories_they_shouldnt_have_in/
Before I proceed, you see the bald placeholder FemV everywhere in NC. The Laurie Anderson stuff, as you note in several posts on this sub, the woman is BALD here.
Example:
hey now, pay attention to the jacket too ;) besides bald lol
same blood group as johnny. yeah
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/FF06B5/comments/1fq1wx1/the_andersons_id_blood_types_and_v/
You wake up in a medical facility, and everywhere in med diagnostic equipment you see the same bald woman. Reusable assets? Nah choom, it's sus(Um hey, might I say, US).
The waking up itself, the memories, and everything. There's probably both NUSA technology and something like a Boltzmann brain involved. The year she wakes up, NC is now Zetatech dominated and they "claimed to have completely eliminated cyberpsychosis in its latest cyberware".
Now I might wonder if Zetatech was the one doing research on V. But honestly, I don't need to. These are easy speculations, if they are even speculations at all, rather than potential realities.
Anyways, this post I won't add too much as it's been years and we've seen almost everything, and whatever I am talking about everyone knows or has seen or speculated in other posts, mine included.
Just cuz she wakes up bald and weak from a coma with most of her cyberware deactivated doesn't mean it's over for her story. One might disagree with me, but just look at all the evidence we have, chooms!
In short, I'm just saying, we might see V again in Cyberpunk 2 in a new story where she burns down the city indeed. Recovers Johnny too, perhaps? New Johnny lore where it turns out Johnny had another copy, hidden somewhere, Johnny still alive, more deep dark Zetatech lore. What seemed like just a side mystery might actually be a big part of the upcoming game itself.
Say you don't play as V at all, or she's mentioned very rarely in Cyberpunk 2. Well, PREEM. See, as CDPR shifts its focus toward the development of Project Orion, the studio faces the complex challenge of unifying a fractured narrative landscape. A strategic bridge expansion for Cyberpunk 2077 could serve as the perfect catalyst, reconciling the disparate outcomes of the base game to establish a coherent, singular foundation for the upcoming sequel.
You get to do all the cool stuff maybe in that expansion. Orion is still a long way off, choom, which gives CDPR plenty of runway to bridge the gap in an expansion or weave V’s ghost into the sequel's architecture. Either way, the stage is being set for a final, calculated burn.
Zetatech info:
In 2079, Zetatech had greatly expanded its influence. It had achieved over 80% domination of the North American market, and claimed to have completely eliminated cyberpsychosis in its latest cyberware thanks to a revolutionary new immune system booster that greatly reduced the number of negative immune responses in implants. Zetatech had a record breaking year in 2078, and expected to break it again in 2079. They had grown their holdings to include two additional offices in Watson and Westbrook.
According to the NC Inquirer, Zetatech's recent dominance came from ongoing secret tests and a discrete agreement with city leaders.
source: https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Zetatech
On the "Tower" V and the Future:
I'm adding my reply to donglord99's question below, since it explains a lot of my reasoning.
"Good question. I’m not saying V becomes a legendary solo again. I’m saying V becomes the ultimate ghost, you know. Much like Morgan Blackhand! Blackhand didn't stay a legend because of his chrome, he stayed relevant because he knew how to disappear and operate outside the system's sight.
"Just another face in the crowd" - Misty
V is the only character who knows what the world looks like from the other side of the Blackwall and the corporate curtain. That kind of perspective is the ultimate leverage in a setting that's constantly being reset by shadowy entities like those in the FF:06:B5 mystery.
Hey, let's just say V has enough leverage to make the entire corporate hierarchy cannibalize itself if she wants.
If you're also wondering about burning the city to the ground and why: there's nothing but raw resentment. It’s the realization that she was just a tool used by the NUSA and the corporations to fix their own crashes, only to be tossed aside the moment she was no longer profitable. She was just an asset with an expiration date and now, she’s finally ready to return the favor."
^(note:) ^(Yeah I know could've restructured the reply extracting just the info instead of directly copypasting again but i feel lazy, i don't get eddies for this choom ;D)
Has anyone tried to enter this number? on their phone in DogTown
